Also on Capitol Hill, the Republican House leadership announced it would rescind changes to ethics rules that appeared to have been made to protect House Majority Leader Tom Delay. The ethics commission is now expected to meet for the first time in four months in order to investigate a series of new allegations that Delay has broken house ethics rules. Earlier this week it was exposed that DeLay allowed a registered foreign agent and a lobbyist to pay for overseas trips. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Wednesday that he expects the commission to clear Delay’s name. USA Today reported earlier this week that the Republican members of the ethics commission may all face a potential conflict of interest in investigating DeLay — all five members have received campaign donations in recent years from Delay’s political action committee. Since 1997 DeLay has been admonished by the ethics committee five times — that’s more than any other member of the House.